Tomb Raider Review: 4 Ups & 5 Downs

4. The Dull, Exposition-Heavy Script

Clearly, the film's biggest overall weakness is the script, which strands the viewer in an avalanche of exposition from the outset and never really lets up.

There are literally countless sequences in this film where a character dispassionately reels off information about the nonsense supernatural narrative, and it's basically the equivalent of playing a Tomb Raider video game and being stuck in an overlong, overly verbose cut-scene...but you can't skip it.

Even outside of the exposition, it's a lifeless, joyless script, lacking any sort of palpable humanity or enjoyable comic relief: it's a purely mechanical concoction that further cements the film's overall dullness.